Product Management Job Trends

Product Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Product Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 338 239 298
Rank change year-on-year -99 +59 -84
Permanent jobs citing Product Management 473 590 947
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.52% 1.36% 0.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.70% 1.45% 1.15%
Number of salaries quoted 216 310 518
10th Percentile £38,984 £45,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £53,750 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,886 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +3.70% -3.57%
75th Percentile £88,019 £87,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £108,125 £115,000 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £63,076 £62,500 £58,700
% change year-on-year +0.92% +6.47% -6.08%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Product Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 67,307 40,602 82,234
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 74.25% 93.30% 85.26%
Number of salaries quoted 42,652 22,587 59,697
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,450 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -10.10%
75th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,446 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -9.09%

Product Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Product Management relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Product Management job vacancy trend in the UK

Product Management
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Management

Product Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Product Management over the 6 months to 9 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Product Management in the UK

Product Management
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Product Management within the UK over the 6 months to 9 May 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -67 431 £66,771 -4.61% 279
London -2 263 £85,000 +6.25% 165
Work from Home +54 242 £65,000 - 126
UK excluding London -167 152 £63,076 +0.92% 143
North of England -38 63 £75,000 -3.23% 28
North West -2 38 £85,000 +13.33% 15
South East -121 29 £49,625 -29.11% 36
Midlands -50 26 £58,750 -2.08% 23
Yorkshire -43 22 £63,076 +94.08% 9
West Midlands -40 20 £57,500 -8.00% 16
East of England -4 18 £60,100 -7.54% 18
South West -78 15 £62,500 +4.17% 22
East Midlands -30 6 £152,500 +190.48% 7
Scotland -19 3 £55,000 +22.22% 10
North East -47 3 £63,076 -23.54% 4
Wales -31 2 £72,251 +20.71% 6
Northern Ireland - 2 £75,000 - 1

Product Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 18 (3.81%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 13 (2.75%) Confluence
3 10 (2.11%) SharePoint
4 9 (1.90%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.63%) CMS
6 1 (0.21%) Drupal
6 1 (0.21%) MTS
6 1 (0.21%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 35 (7.40%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 26 (5.50%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (3.17%) Microsoft Excel
4 11 (2.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.85%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.42%) Trello
7 1 (0.21%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.21%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 20 (4.23%) Workfront
2 5 (1.06%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.63%) Fidessa
3 3 (0.63%) Shopify
4 2 (0.42%) Magento
4 2 (0.42%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 78 (16.49%) AWS
2 54 (11.42%) SaaS
3 46 (9.73%) Azure
4 34 (7.19%) iPaaS
5 20 (4.23%) GitHub
6 19 (4.02%) Pulumi
7 17 (3.59%) Power Platform
8 16 (3.38%) GitHub Copilot
9 12 (2.54%) GCP
10 11 (2.33%) Microsoft 365
11 9 (1.90%) OneDrive
12 8 (1.69%) Figma
13 7 (1.48%) Asana
14 6 (1.27%) Azure DevOps
15 5 (1.06%) Snowflake
16 4 (0.85%) Google Workspace
16 4 (0.85%) H2O.ai
16 4 (0.85%) Miro
16 4 (0.85%) OpenShift
17 3 (0.63%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 61 (12.90%) Broadband
2 29 (6.13%) HTTP
3 13 (2.75%) WAN
4 12 (2.54%) SD-WAN
5 9 (1.90%) LAN
6 5 (1.06%) RTP
7 4 (0.85%) Firewall
7 4 (0.85%) Network Security
7 4 (0.85%) NGN
7 4 (0.85%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (0.63%) MPLS
8 3 (0.63%) Multicast
8 3 (0.63%) Wireless
9 2 (0.42%) VPN
9 2 (0.42%) WLAN
10 1 (0.21%) Bluetooth
10 1 (0.21%) DNS
10 1 (0.21%) Ethernet
10 1 (0.21%) SAN
10 1 (0.21%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (8.25%) Metadata
2 19 (4.02%) NoSQL
2 19 (4.02%) RDBMS
2 19 (4.02%) Relational Database
3 15 (3.17%) Power BI
4 4 (0.85%) Data Lake
4 4 (0.85%) SQL Server
4 4 (0.85%) Tableau
5 3 (0.63%) Big Data
5 3 (0.63%) Data Mining
6 2 (0.42%) Mixpanel
Development Applications
1 26 (5.50%) JIRA
2 19 (4.02%) Jaeger
3 3 (0.63%) Git
4 1 (0.21%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.21%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.21%) Selenium
General
1 161 (34.04%) Finance
2 154 (32.56%) Social Skills
3 148 (31.29%) Marketing
4 85 (17.97%) Banking
5 75 (15.86%) Analytical Skills
6 64 (13.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 58 (12.26%) Retail
8 50 (10.57%) Law
9 49 (10.36%) Influencing Skills
10 44 (9.30%) Presentation Skills
11 27 (5.71%) Back Office
11 27 (5.71%) Public Sector
12 24 (5.07%) Legal
13 21 (4.44%) Financial Institution
14 18 (3.81%) Organisational Skills
15 17 (3.59%) Manufacturing
16 14 (2.96%) Italian Language
16 14 (2.96%) Retail Banking
17 12 (2.54%) Digital Economy
18 11 (2.33%) German Language
Job Titles
1 143 (30.23%) Product Manager
2 84 (17.76%) Senior
3 73 (15.43%) Lead
4 54 (11.42%) Product Owner
5 45 (9.51%) Senior Manager
6 38 (8.03%) Senior Product Manager
7 30 (6.34%) Development Engineer
7 30 (6.34%) Software Engineer
8 29 (6.13%) Software Development Engineer
9 22 (4.65%) Developer
10 19 (4.02%) Consultant
11 16 (3.38%) Product Lead
11 16 (3.38%) Senior Development Engineer
11 16 (3.38%) Senior Software Development Engineer
11 16 (3.38%) Senior Software Engineer
12 15 (3.17%) Cloud Engineer
13 14 (2.96%) Business Consultant
13 14 (2.96%) Business Development Consultant
13 14 (2.96%) Development Consultant
14 13 (2.75%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (6.55%) REST
2 19 (4.02%) Elastic Stack
2 19 (4.02%) OpenTelemetry
3 4 (0.85%) CSS
3 4 (0.85%) HTML
3 4 (0.85%) Keras
3 4 (0.85%) PyTorch
3 4 (0.85%) TensorFlow
4 3 (0.63%) FIX Protocol
5 2 (0.42%) .NET
5 2 (0.42%) Spring
5 2 (0.42%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.21%) EDI
6 1 (0.21%) JSON
6 1 (0.21%) PySpark
6 1 (0.21%) RESTful
6 1 (0.21%) SOAP
6 1 (0.21%) XML
6 1 (0.21%) XMPP
6 1 (0.21%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 135 (28.54%) Product Ownership
2 45 (9.51%) Social Media
3 36 (7.61%) Marketing Technology
4 35 (7.40%) Over-the-Top Content
5 34 (7.19%) Cloud Native
6 30 (6.34%) Public Cloud
7 22 (4.65%) Self-Motivation
8 21 (4.44%) Onboarding
9 20 (4.23%) Management Information System
10 14 (2.96%) Enterprise Software
11 12 (2.54%) Web Conferencing
12 10 (2.11%) Enterprise Cloud
13 7 (1.48%) Data Fabric
13 7 (1.48%) Driving Licence
13 7 (1.48%) Podcast
14 6 (1.27%) Analytical Mindset
14 6 (1.27%) Data Centre
14 6 (1.27%) Renewable Energy
15 5 (1.06%) Educational Technology
15 5 (1.06%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 24 (5.07%) Linux
2 19 (4.02%) Unix
3 6 (1.27%) Windows
4 1 (0.21%) Android
4 1 (0.21%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 298 (63.00%) Roadmaps
2 215 (45.45%) Agile
3 144 (30.44%) Product Roadmap
4 106 (22.41%) Product Vision
5 98 (20.72%) Stakeholder Management
6 97 (20.51%) Continuous Improvement
7 95 (20.08%) Decision-Making
8 94 (19.87%) Mentoring
9 92 (19.45%) AI
10 89 (18.82%) Problem-Solving
11 78 (16.49%) User Stories
12 71 (15.01%) Product Strategy
13 69 (14.59%) User Experience
14 67 (14.16%) Customer Experience
15 63 (13.32%) Product Requirements
15 63 (13.32%) Software Engineering
16 61 (12.90%) Product Backlog
17 55 (11.63%) Analytics
17 55 (11.63%) Sprint Planning
18 53 (11.21%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 54 (11.42%) Java
2 30 (6.34%) Python
3 25 (5.29%) JavaScript
4 19 (4.02%) Bash
4 19 (4.02%) Go
5 10 (2.11%) SQL
6 6 (1.27%) Bicep
7 3 (0.63%) R
8 2 (0.42%) C#
8 2 (0.42%) PHP
9 1 (0.21%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 71 (15.01%) Degree
2 24 (5.07%) Security Cleared
3 20 (4.23%) AWS Certification
4 18 (3.81%) SC Cleared
5 16 (3.38%) Master's Degree
6 10 (2.11%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (1.48%) DBS Check
7 7 (1.48%) HNC
7 7 (1.48%) HND
8 6 (1.27%) DV Cleared
9 4 (0.85%) CISSP
9 4 (0.85%) MBA
10 3 (0.63%) CCNA
10 3 (0.63%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.42%) ACCA
11 2 (0.42%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.42%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.42%) CIMA
11 2 (0.42%) CISM
11 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (5.07%) QA
2 15 (3.17%) Accessibility
3 8 (1.69%) GDPR
4 7 (1.48%) Data Quality
5 5 (1.06%) SLA
6 4 (0.85%) PMO
7 3 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.63%) PERC
8 2 (0.42%) GRC
8 2 (0.42%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.42%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.21%) GMP
9 1 (0.21%) NCSC
9 1 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 22 (4.65%) Docker
2 1 (0.21%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.21%) Firmware
2 1 (0.21%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (0.21%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.21%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 32 (6.77%) Terraform
2 22 (4.65%) Kubernetes
3 19 (4.02%) Ansible
3 19 (4.02%) Argo
3 19 (4.02%) Kustomize
3 19 (4.02%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.42%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.21%) Amdocs OSS
5 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.21%) WSUS
Vendors
1 45 (9.51%) Microsoft
2 43 (9.09%) Adobe
3 33 (6.98%) Google
4 8 (1.69%) Cisco
4 8 (1.69%) Salesforce
5 7 (1.48%) Oracle
6 5 (1.06%) Dell
6 5 (1.06%) Fortinet
7 4 (0.85%) Databricks
7 4 (0.85%) NVIDIA
7 4 (0.85%) Toshiba
8 3 (0.63%) Bloomberg
8 3 (0.63%) CQG
8 3 (0.63%) Foundry
8 3 (0.63%) ION Trading
8 3 (0.63%) Juniper
8 3 (0.63%) Patsystems
8 3 (0.63%) Reuters
8 3 (0.63%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 3 (0.63%) Trayport